Ukraine gained independence after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. In February 2014, President Victor Yanukovych was ousted by pro-EuroâAtlantic members of parliament after he used security forces to crack down on popular protests against his attempt to tighten ties with Russia.
They are generally thought to be called wisdom teeth because they appear so late â much later than the other teeth, at an age where people are presumably wiser than as a child, when the other teeth erupt. The term probably came as a translation of the Latin dens sapientiae.
Wisdom teeth are the last of the adult teeth that emerge from the gums in your late teens or early twenties. These large grinding teeth, also known as the third molars, sometimes never develop in certain people, while in others, up to 4 teeth are seen, one at each end of the upper and lower gums.